British Airways

[AirportPlanner1]

Originally Posted by EI-BUD

Try low bookings ...

I’m sure BA must have their reasons but if low bookings were the issue you’d expect it to be the morning flight gone and not both the later ones when people are looking to get home after the weekend.

[irishlad06]

Originally Posted by AirportPlanner1

I’m sure BA must have their reasons but if low bookings were the issue you’d expect it to be the morning flight gone and not both the later ones when people are looking to get home after the weekend.

people will just be put on EI flights

[CabinCrewe]

Islamabad relaunched S19 3/wk 788

[newscaster]

Originally Posted by CabinCrewe

Islamabad relaunched S19 3/wk 788

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...mabad-pakistan

Is this the smallest aircraft BA have used there post 707 and Vc10, did they ever fly 767s there?

[rog747]

Originally Posted by newscaster

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/b...mabad-pakistan

Is this the smallest aircraft BA have used there post 707 and Vc10, did they ever fly 767s there?

IIRC the Tristars went there - they were low config afaik

[CabinCrewe]

Think there were 767's to Karachi?

[Flightrider]

BA didn't ever fly to Karachi during the 767's near three decades in the fleet - that was a service that stopped in the early 1980s if my memory serves me right, and Karachi used to be a TriStar over Dubai.

Post the VC10 era into Rawalpindi, BA had the 747s on LGW-ISB and then LGW-MAN-ISB BA2119 routing for a few years. It then went to LHR on 747 and latterly 777 before being dropped ten years ago. Unless I'm much mistaken, there was a flight ops technical reason why BA 767-300s couldn't do Islamabad - something about the RR-powered aircraft dry operating weights being heavier and a consequent problem with drift-down altitudes for those specific aircraft being below the MSA over one of the mountain ranges sticks in my mind as the reason why. One of the BA folk did explain it to me once upon a time during a discussion about BA 767s based at Manchester and why they never went east. It was certainly a convoluted problem but one which didn't affect routings going further south for the likes of HYD and BLR which - although even further - did receive BA 767 service over the years.

Happy to stand corrected if anyone can be more definitive!

[CabinCrewe]

767s operated Karachi via DXB in 1990

[newscaster]

Originally Posted by CabinCrewe

767s operated Karachi via DXB in 1990

Yes I remember that being announced on local TV, was more interested in knowing about ISB, according to one UK based av enthusiast BA used Tristar and DC10 as subs for the 747 at times.

[22/04]

767 must have succeeded L1011s in around 1990 then. Was a frequent visitor to Karachi 1989-1994 and can remember seeing a TriStar 500 there at least once.

[newscaster]

I confirmed from a post at another forum BA did operate all variants of the Tristar to ISB at some point or as subs as mentioned above.

Originally Posted by 22/04

767 must have succeeded L1011s in around 1990 then. Was a frequent visitor to Karachi 1989-1994 and can remember seeing a TriStar 500 there at least once.

You are right it was changed to 767, also BA quit KHI in April 1991.

[EI-BUD]

Originally Posted by CabinCrewe

Islamabad relaunched S19 3/wk 788

I recall this route operating London Gatwick - Manchester - Islamabad twice weekly circa 1987-1989 ..

[newscaster]

Originally Posted by EI-BUD

I recall this route operating London Gatwick - Manchester - Islamabad twice weekly circa 1987-1989 ..

The routing you mentioned operated till 1999-2000, then it switched to LHR-ISB.

[Flightrider]

At the risk of making the most pedantic post of the year, I checked back in the BA timetables for 1989-1992 earlier today. Karachi was served by a TriStar routing over Kuwait (BA147/149) and stopped in Winter 1990/91 as evidently Kuwait services had stopped (not out of choice) at the same time. There was no mention of any BA 767 operation to Karachi anywhere.

[VickersVicount]

From a respected BA Crew member elsewhere. Remember paper timetables were printed often 6-12 months out of date...

[A320ECAM]

Guys, I hope BA have added an extra hour onto the turnaround time for cleaning the cabin. The mess made by SLF going to/from Pakistan is shameful.

[Local Variation]

G-BYGC to be re-painted in BOAC livery in Feb.

[KelvinD]

G-BYGC to be re-painted in BOAC livery in Feb.

Looking forward to that! And, may I say, about bloody time!

[davidjohnson6]

I can understand why an airline might occasionally paint an aircraft in retro livery under the same name, but using the name of a predecessor company seems odd. The big corporate name and logo functions partly as an advertisement - and the old logo suggests how long established and mature a company is. Using the name of an old company loses that benefit and potentially causes confusion to people outside the airline industry

[crewmeal]

Agreed about time too. It will raise a few hairs on the back of the neck to those who remember the best airline to work for back in those days.